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ISSUE: Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
1. Should scientists and other researchers focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people? It might be true in some field, however I consider this issue should be probed in depth, not hastily draw a conclusion that they should focus on field for the benefits of the majority.
2.It is true that everyone should focus on benefit the most people of the world. Because as living creatures on the planet, we should pay our attention to the field that could make the world a better place, not only considering the profit of ourselves. So scientists should also focus on that goal. Otherwise,if scientists pay little attention to the field that perhaps the one would bring our life to doom such as nuclear research, it would lead to a disaster to planet. All in all, The goal of the scientist is to use their knowledge of law of nature to change the world.
3.For example, in agriculture, a Chinese Researcher named Yuan Longping, who spent a lot of years researching the hybrid-grain , won the Prize of Chinese Excellent Contribution Scientists, with his super grain not only contribute to the output of Chinese agriculture in total ,but also saved a lot of life in Africa.What he did benefit a international wide people and even made him the qualification to get a tenure of Professor in Harvard, which not only benefit himself but also have a positive effect on the whole human being on the planet.
4.However there are question need to be asked about the issue.What is exactly the field that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people? What if the field will has such a effect on the greatest number of people but is not apparent at present? Then it would naturally follows that the field is going to become oblivion according to the logical conclusion from the issue? Of course, we should not only focus on the only type of field, there other field is also worthwhile in the future even it is not obvious as it seems right now.
5.For instance, when Bell first invented a telephone and displayed it in a worldwide exhibition ,a high-class woman came to asked .which was also a lot of people's confusion,about what kind of job was the machine going to work.At that time, people only need to use mail to connect each other through post office.So does that mean Bell should give up his invention? Of course not. It proved to be useful after a few years later and became a new scientific field, and even resulting a more worldwide significant effect than it used to.Hence, it would be unwise to follow the instruction of the issue to only focus on the field that seems to benefit the most majority of people.Because it is always impossible to predict a value of a novel invention when it first come to birth.And it would lead to a huge loss on the whole happiness of human society if we abandon a field due to its present unpromising condition.
6.In conclusion, although it is true that scientist and researchers should shoulder the responsibility of harnessing their knowledge to make the world better , we cannot only put our resource on such a seemingly most beneficial field without careful inspection and evaluation the outcome of a field in the future. |
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